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By Kristina Kelleher on October 26, 2007
In order to appear as a world leader on environmental issues, Beijing has come up with the slogan, the “green” Olympics for the 2008 games. In order for the slogan to have any weight, Beijing must improve its environmental protection, since the area currently has one of the worst records of pollution in the world. [...]
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By Mark Fuller on October 26, 2007
With the tentative agreement reached in the General Motors strike, the biggest news is not that organized labor won out, but that it is dying. That is good news for me because I like buying American, and there was no way GM was going to be making any car I would want if they were [...]
Posted in National | Tagged October 2007, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VI Number II
By Kristina Kelleher on October 26, 2007
The crowds, literally and figuratively, are the same. Struggling mothers are concerned about health care, Vietnam veterans are concerned for soldiers returning from Iraq, and small business owners are worried about taxes, the minimum wage, and competing with big business. Hardened by decades of primaries, these New Hampshire citizens are as hard to move [...]
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By Christina Cozzetto on October 26, 2007
Earlier this month, the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in Britain (a statutory body responsible for controlling all issues related to in vitro fertilization, storing of human sperm or eggs, artificial insemination and most embryo research carried out in the United Kingdom) decided there is no reason to prevent cytoplasmic hybrid research. This research would [...]
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By Joshua Unseth on October 26, 2007
Bad food at the Ratty is a Brown tradition as entrenched as the naked donut run and as pervasive as hippie girls who do not shave their legs. It is as expected as the verdict in an OJ Simpson murder trial, and as customary as the singleness of Catholic clergy. There is no getting around [...]
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By The Brown Spectator on October 26, 2007
Last month, two students went to the Registrar’s office to change their race and gender. Their reasoning: race and gender are nothing more than social constructs. The Spectator is pleased that the Registrar did not grant their request, recommending, instead, that the students go to court with their complaint.
Posted in Winner | Tagged October 2007, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VI Number II
By The Brown Spectator on October 26, 2007
Kristina Kelleher
Not that I support much government spending but I must point the hypocrisy of recent federal spending cuts. If we want to reduce the number of abortions performed each year, either because we care about the sanctity of life or because we realize it’s an inefficient form of birth control, shouldn’t we support providing [...]
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By Boris Ryvkin on October 26, 2007
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s explosive speech at Columbia was the quintessential media circus. The setup could not have been more perfect, the lights could not have been brighter, and the public relations victory for Iran’s regime could not have been sweeter. There was Columbia’s President Lee Bollinger, who berated Ahmadinejad for exhibiting “all the [...]
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By Michael Fink on October 26, 2007
He was born in Moscow, Russia. I was born right here in Divine Providence, U.S.A. But we share the same date of birth. Israel Helms came to Rhode Island and to my neighborhood in 1955, having survived both World War II and the Stalinist Soviet Union, the totalitarian cruelties of fascism/Nazism and [...]
Posted in Culture | Tagged October 2007, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VI Number II
By Sean Quigley on October 26, 2007
Invariably, protests seem to be viewed as the domain of left-leaning individuals – “taking it to the streets” has, for quite some time, not been regarded as a conservative tactic for effecting change or, perhaps more accurately, preventing change. If asked why protests are not common among the right, a conservative would probably respond by [...]
Posted in Brown University | Tagged October 2007, Parents’ Weekend, Volume VI Number II
